"In ethnically diverse Los Angeles, many immigrants find that learning Korean, Spanish or Mandarin is more important than English."
Dalai Lama: Hopeful signs in China of interest in Tibetan culture
Newsday.com: Dalai Lama: Hopeful signs in China of interest in Tibetan culture: "Tibetan Buddhist practice is not incompatible with Western science and that both traditions can learn from each other. "
"The majority of Americans still believe that salvation is possible only through Jesus Christ," he said.
The Dalai Lama did not address Hough's remarks directly but said, "If you look at the life of the Buddha, he evolved in an atmosphere of religious plurality."
Mysterious 'Ball Of Fire' Seen In Fla. Skies
local6.com - News - Mysterious 'Ball Of Fire' Seen In Fla. Skies
Could this be a cause of the Hurricanes? Celestial Inferno, unexplainable (sic).
Pocatello Idaho State Journal: Forecaster leaves job to pursue weather theories\
Pocatello Idaho State Journal: Forecaster leaves job to pursue weather theories\: "the Yakuza Mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima."
HoustonChronicle.com -
HoustonChronicle.com -: "'I'm trying to make it a fairy tale so they won't panic,' said Nathan, who had four grandchildren in tow. 'I have to be strong for them.'"
Reality is not for the weakminded
Freedom Fighter of the Month
Axis of Justice | Freedom Fighter of the Month | Agatha Schmaedick: "In the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, 20-year old Gibson found an abandoned bus on the streets of New Orleans. Stranded in a ruined city, and low on supplies, Gibson decided to use this bus for a rescue mission."
The Clash of Fundamentalisms
"what we have experienced is the return of History in a horrific form, with religious symbols playing a part on both sides: ‘Allah's revenge,’ ‘God is on Our Side’ and ‘God Bless America.’"
Zapata of Mexico
"Zapata emboldened the zapatistas in their struggle to win back control of ancestral community lands."
Russia, China work together to form of new world order in 21st century
"At present, the Russian-Chinese relations are the highest point they have ever gotten to during the entire history of the bilateral contacts"
Turn Left: Liberal Unfriendly Places - Riverside
Turn Left: Liberal Unfriendly Places - Riverside: "Lovely Riverside. Once the playground of the Hollywood Elite, what Palm Springs is today, is now one of the many degenerating cesspools of the concrete suburban nightmare known to the rest of the world as LA. "
'new journalism order' ?!?!?!?
"politicians 'of every persuasion' had gotten better at applying pressure on the conglomerates that own the broadcast networks. He called it a 'new journalism order.'"
The War for Latinos
"'We were watching a puppet show when all of a sudden a military song is playing in the background. I thought that was weird but kept watching. A couple of minutes later, all of us were looking at pictures on a TV screen of people in the Army giving food and supplies to kids in Iraq. My friends and I thought that was really weird--and got out.'"
Fox offer to send Mexican laborers
Like I've said before, good for business bad for the people. Fox's noble idea to remain a whore to the United States Government is a cost effective idea.
ABC News: Chavez Criticizes U.N. Reforms in Speech
ABC News: Chavez Criticizes U.N. Reforms in Speech: "'This is very suspicious … tomorrow or sometime in the future, someone in Washington will say that the Venezuelan people need to be protected from the tyrant Chavez, who is a threat,' he said in a speech that was broadcast on state-run television in Venezuela.
Chavez said Washington's 'imperialist' policies threaten not only foreign governments but also U.S. citizens, noting that hundreds of Americans have died fighting in Iraq.
'The majority of them are blacks, most of them Latinos,' Chavez told the crowd of 250, which included Dominicans and Puerto Ricans."
Chavez: U.S. Plans to Invade Venezuela
"We are coming up with the counter-Balboa plan. That is to say if the government of the United States attempts to commit the foolhardy enterprise of attacking us, it would be embarked on a 100-year war. We are prepared." - Hugo Chavez
Viva Chavez!
Is L.A. next?
FEMA declared in August 2001 that the three mega-disasters most likely to hit the US were (1) a terrorist attack on New York City; (2) a Category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans; and (3) a major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault. Now we’ve had the first two. Is L.A. next?
For comment and analysis we turn to DAVID L. ULIN. His new book, The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith is out now in paperback. Mike Davis calls the book “a wry, hugely original, and scary exploration of the unstable boundaries between science and folk magic in California’s culture of disaster.” Dave Ulin is the new editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review.
ALSO: Does New Orleans have a future? ANDREI CODRESCU, the poet and novelist born in Romania who lives in Louisiana, says “New Orleans had a great period, and now it is going to sink into some kind of glorious mess, like Venice, and become just a tourist spot. People will come . . . to feel the grandeur of what was once there.”
PLUS: the life and music of Jimi Hendrix: CHARLES CROSS is the author of Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. Charles Cross will be reading and signing at Book Soup on Sunset Strip at 7pm Wed.
PLAYLIST: “Hey Joe” (Smash Hits); “All Along the Watchtower” (Experience Hendrix); “Room Full of Mirrors” (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
QUOTABLE: Bill Maher’s message to George Bush: “Mr. President, this job can’t be fun for you any more. There’s no more money to spend–you used up all of that. You can’t start another war because you also used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Now it’s time to do what you’ve always done best: lose interest and walk away. Like you did with your military service and the oil company, and the baseball team. It’s time.”
RECOMMENDED: “This American Life: After the Flood.” GREAT interviews – listen online at http://www.thislife.org/ -- scroll down to “After the Flood” -- click on the Real Audio icon.
For more info, links and audio, check the show website www.JonWiener.com
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